Working on your training plan for this year?  Want to update or develop new skills?  Are you or your team involved in tasks related to data collection, analysis and reporting?

Statistics Canada is offering introductory professional workshops at Brandon University.

Understanding & Interpreting Data

September 17–18, 2019 at Brandon University

Regular fee $550 / Early bird fee $499 for registrations before September 6

A quick refresher course for those who have had statistical training in the past or a fastpaced introduction to basic statistics for beginners. Some of the analytical techniques that will be covered in this course include cross tabulations, chi-square, t-tests, correlation and some aspects of linear regression.  Participants will be guided through the analysis and interpretation process with written exercises. Examples are primarily in Excel.

Workshop topics include:

• Analytical requirements and sources of data
• Types of data
• Sampling methods
• Margin of error and confidence intervals
• Grouping and graphing data
• Interpreting and presenting analytical results

Additional workshops

• Turning Statistics Into Stories (Sept. 19, 2019 at BU)

See the full list of Statistics Canada 2019–20 workshops.

Webinars

Statistics Canada is proud to offer a free Webinar Series covering general topics. If you wish to be kept informed of upcoming webinars, please e-mail us at STATCAN Webinar.

Register

If you are interested in attending one of the scheduled workshops, course registrations can be made by the following methods:

• Online:  http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/wtc/workshops
• Fax:        204 – 983 – 7543
• E-mail:   darren.lezubski@canada.ca